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I noticed that this question is tagged as unanswered. Received pronunciation is so named because it was 'received by', i.e. taught to public school pupils and RADA pupils. ( RADA = Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts ). You can hear example in
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anonymous
186 days ago
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Native speakers of English don't, unless dictating to children. In ... or "handbag" (which in rapid speech is indistinguishable from "ham-bag"). I'm English and have just a vestige of a "d" in handsome and a
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peter groves
1 yr 17 days ago
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I remember at school there was a combined volume of "Billy Liar" and "The Loneliness of The Long Distance Runner" ubiquitous to the "English Rooms". I thought the latter to be the better story, better written; but
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1 yr 91 days ago
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There's very little more pitiful than a white man trying to be black to please a black audience. Why is that? With me its the same thing with black people trying to be white. You mean the ones dating and slicing the blondes? Thats why Im so
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1 yr 178 days ago
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David schrieb: David schrieb: I find the last sentence incomprehensible, if ... could interpret for those of us who don't come Yorkshire. Well, even the trolling "blue sow" managed to pick out that I'd made a transposition error
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einde o'callaghan
2 yr 197 days ago
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"Languages divide people, knowlegde joins them." Knowledge Is Above Language ... text and translate to their native languages. I mean: - Hi Danny, I have got the program White Smoke, it is good. I would use the latter to learn how to
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ariel alonzo medina v?zquez
5 yr 95 days ago
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Are you near a large city? Look in the yellow pages of the phone book under "Speech therapy", "Public speaking" ... specialize in these things, working with folks who stutter, or who have speech impediments, or who have a
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mxsmanic
5 yr 108 days ago
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: So how does the rule on "u" and "a" or "an" work (or all the vowels for that matter)? Why is it a university, but an umbilical cord? Because of the pronunciation, not the spelling. University is pronounced
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molly mockford
5 yr 278 days ago
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I think English pronunciation is probably the most difficult aspect ... in English that don't exist in Italian Spanish or French. Well, after mastering the sounds of Latvian and German, English has only the two versions of "th" to
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